Bug#833504: RFS: ecere-sdk/0.44.15-1 -- Please sponsor this new release of the Ecere SDK; Closes #811957; Closes #826352

[Jérôme St-Louis <jerome@ecere.com>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for the 0.44.15-1 release of my package 
"ecere-sdk".

This closes 2 bugs including a serious one (FTBFS with GCC 6 which had 
it removed from 'testing').

Closes #811957 (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=811957)
Closes #826352 (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826352)

* Package name    : ecere-sdk
   Version         : 0.44.15-1
   Upstream Author : Ecere Corporation <jerome@ecere.com>
* URL             : http://ecere.org
* License         : BSD-3 clauses
  Section         : Development

It builds those binary packages:

ecere-dev - Ecere SDK Development Tools
ecere-extras - Extras for the Ecere SDK
ecere-samples - Project samples for the Ecere SDK
ecere-sdk - Ecere cross-platform SDK
libecc0 - eC Compiler Library
libecere0 - Ecere Runtime Library
libecereaudio0 - Ecere Audio
libecerecom0 - eC Core Runtime Library
libeda0 - Ecere Data Access
libedasqlite0 - EDA SQLite Driver

To access further information about this package, please visit the
following URL:

http://mentors.debian.net/package/ecere-sdk


  Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this 
command:

  dget -x 
https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/ecere-sdk/ecere-sdk_0.44.15-1.dsc 


  More information about the Ecere SDK can be obtained from 
http://ecere.org


See Ecere SDK 0.44.15 release notes @ 
https://github.com/ecere/ecere-sdk/releases

New features include among others:
    - Web support through Emscripten
    - OpenGL Support
    - Introduction of the ECON data inter-change format ( 
http://ec-lang.org/econ/ )
    - IDE Customization (fonts & color schemes)


  Changes since the last upload:

ecere-sdk (0.44.15-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Packaged Ecere SDK 0.44.15 (Closes: #811957 #826352)
  * Changes:
      * Fixed building with GCC 6 (Compiler was generating bad 
__attribute__
        specifiers with spaces rather than commas)
      * Renamed IDE binary to less generic name (ide ==> ecere-ide)
      * Web Support through Emscripten and WebGL
      * 3D Graphics Improvements (OpenGL)
         - Support for Shaders
           (WebGL, Core/Compatibility profiles, OpenGL ES 2)
         - Phong Shading Using Shaders
         - Environment Mapping and Cube Maps
            (Support for Reflection and Refraction)
         - Normals Mapping Support
         - Fixed and improved lighting
         - Computed Normals Weighting for smoother surfaces
         - Optimizations
      * Font Outline Support
      * Fixed text extent computation to account for overhang of italic 
fonts
      * ECON Support (ECON is a JSON superset, dropping quotes, supporting
        hexadecimal, multi-line strings, comments, derived classes, and
        mapping directly to eC instantiations -- http://ec-lang.org/econ/ )
      * ECON based IDE configuration (split options, recent files/projects
        and compilers individually stored in separate files,
        all in ~/.ecereIDE/)
      * ECON based Documentor
         (Documentation data can now be text-diffed with git etc.)
      * ECON based Color Scheme and Font Selection in Global Settings
      * Sortable Containers
      * Distributed Objects Fixes & Improvements
      * (Windows) Fixes for TDM-GCC 5
      * Android: Fixes to run on newer versions
      * X: Fixed NumPad key definitions
      * Build system Fixes & Improvements
      * Other Fixes & Improvements

 -- Jerome St-Louis <jerstlouis@gmail.com>  Thu, 4 Aug 2016 14:00:00 -0400


Best Regards,

     Jerome St-Louis